Re: Waffling on the iPhone

["Kent Borg" <user=107@nabble.blu.org>]

 Al Wheeler wrote: 
> get an iPhone or something like the iPhone. I'll try to wait until it 
> runs Linux?.. 
>   

Openmoko runs Linux and is available now.  Slight catch--which is the 
point--the Openmoko software is very rough at the moment.  Expect Apple 
to always have a smoother product than Openmoko, but expect Openmoko to 
have some major advantages for the techie market. 

Actually, Openmoko is *not* currently available, they sold out, the web 
site says later this month.  I forget the price.  More than the 
subsidized Iphone price, less than the un-subsidized Iphone price. 

And then there is Google's phone software.  It might be quite slick. 
Google has money to throw at such a thing and Google is actually a 
hotbed of innovation. 

And, because both of these projects are open, they can cross-pollinate. 

My wife has a phone from work and so can't justify getting an Iphone, so 
she thinks I should.  She thinks Apple products are cool.  But I don't 
want one.  Not yet. 


-kb, the Kent who still thinks it is cool he can use his old phone as a 
(slow) ppp connection to the internet for his Linux notebook. 

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